No Brief Candle

VIRGINIA PRINCE

In Her Words and Mine

Dallas Denny

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

For more than a half century Virginia Prince was an important and controversial activist on behalf of heterosexual crossdressers. She was a prolific creator of organizations, printed material, and ideas from the 1950s until her death in 2009 at age 96. She was remarkable in myriad ways, both good and bad. In these pages Dallas Denny, who knew Virginia for nearly 40 years, tells Virginia’s story in both her words and in Virginia’s.